Adobe Releases Flash Player 11.1 With Ice Cream Sandwich Support

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Adobe on Friday released Flash Player 11.1 for Android devices. The update includes support for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but is the last major version of Adobe's mobile browser plugin.

An Adobe AIR 3.1 update will ship next week.

In late November, Adobe announced that it would no longer develop Flash Player for the mobile Web after its next release. "Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores," the company said at the time.

In a Friday blog post, Adobe reiterated that stance, arguing that apps are the wave of the future.

"The most stunning, innovative content and games for mobile devices are delivered and consumed through apps," Adobe's Tom Nguyen wrote. "The most impactful, engaging experiences on the desktop are delivered through the browser. With Flash Player for desktop and AIR apps for mobile, Flash allows you to craft and deliver beautiful experiences for both."

"AIR 3.1 brings immersive, beautiful apps powered by Flash to iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, BlackBerry PlayBook, Barnes and Noble Nook tablets, and the Amazon Kindle Fire (whew!)," Nguyen continued. "As a developer, you can use Flash to create brilliant interactive experiences, games, and video and seamlessly deliver them to over 1 billion people: in the browser on 99 percent of PCs and via app stores to over 350 million iOS, Android and BlackBerry smartphones and tablets."

The Flash Player 11.1 update will be available on the Android Market and will work on the newly released Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone in the U.S. to support Ice Cream Sandwich.

Late this afternoon, Google announced that it will roll out Ice Cream Sandwich to the GSM/UMTS versions of the Nexus S over the next month, starting today. Other Android handset makers and carriers have not nailed down exact ICS upgrade dates.

Earlier today, Google also formally announced Android 4.0.3, the base version of ICS that will be provided to partners.

For more, see Adobe Flash Meets Its End and No Flash Forwarding to HTML5.

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Adobe outs Flash Player 11.1 for Android, finally works on Ice Cream Sandwich albeit a bit buggy

It came as a bit of a surprise when it turned out that the Android Flash Player doesn’t work on the Ice Cream Sandwich-running Galaxy Nexus a few weeks back. But Adobe have been hard at work to fix that and they’ve released what could be one of the very last updates for the Android player.

Let’s hope it’s not the last update, because while the Flash Player may be working correctly for the most part, some bugs are present in this release (several of which show up only on ICS).

Here’s the full list of bugs to be aware of:

• Seeking while video is paused will not update the frame on ICS device


• StageVideo using On2 and Sorenson does not work on ICS devices


• PHDS content plays with audio pops


• OS does not prioritize incoming call – audio remains playing before and after call is received


• Enter key does not work on the multi-line text input field

Nevertheless, the player works, and that’s what is important at the end of the day, right? Head over to the Android Market and download the updated version. Let’s hope Adobe will fix the updates soon enough in a follow-up update.